Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel has the obsessive curiosity of an ingenious computer hacker, assiduously tampering with freely available snippets from digital technology's short history. While Super Mario Clouds (2002) and Super Slow Tetris (2004) were re-coded 1980s' Nintendo games, Arcangel's more recent work has pitched YouTube's erosion of cultural memory against the aging icons of the '80s. Sweet 16 (2006) is a Steve Reich-influenced phasing system, in which the intro from Guns 'n' Roses' 'Sweet Child o' Mine' (1987) is sliced and diced across a two-screen video installation. Elsewhere, as in Structural Film (2007), generated from the programming glitches involved with transferring digital to analogue, Arcangel coaxes new effects from incompatible processes and obsolete media.
Copyright Sam Thorne, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9
Shown by:
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Team Gallery, New York
Max Wigram Gallery, London
